White Kids Born Racist

Yeah, white kids are born racist, and black kids are born liking chicken.

Does it get any dumber than this? And I'll be we paid for this idiotic study with GOVERNMENT dollars.
 
Here is the article.

Even Babies Discriminate: A NurtureShock Excerpt. | Newsweek Life | Newsweek.com

Here are some exerts from the article.

It was no surprise that in a liberal city like Austin, every parent was a welcoming multiculturalist, embracing diversity. But according to Vittrup's entry surveys, hardly any of these white parents had ever talked to their children directly about race. They might have asserted vague principles—like "Everybody's equal" or "God made all of us" or "Under the skin, we're all the same"—but they'd almost never called attention to racial differences.

They wanted their children to grow up colorblind. But Vittrup's first test of the kids revealed they weren't colorblind at all. Asked how many white people are mean, these children commonly answered, "Almost none." Asked how many blacks are mean, many answered, "Some," or "A lot." Even kids who attended diverse schools answered the questions this way.

More disturbing, Vittrup also asked all the kids a very blunt question: "Do your parents like black people?" Fourteen percent said outright, "No, my parents don't like black people"; 38 percent of the kids answered, "I don't know." In this supposed race-free vacuum being created by parents, kids were left to improvise their own conclusions—many of which would be abhorrent to their parents. ...

It takes remarkably little for children to develop in-group preferences. Vittrup's mentor at the University of Texas, Rebecca Bigler, ran an experiment in three preschool classrooms, where 4- and 5-year-olds were lined up and given T shirts. Half the kids were randomly given blue T shirts, half red. The children wore the shirts for three weeks. During that time, the teachers never mentioned their colors and never grouped the kids by shirt color.

The kids didn't segregate in their behavior. They played with each other freely at recess. But when asked which color team was better to belong to, or which team might win a race, they chose their own color. They believed they were smarter than the other color. "The Reds never showed hatred for Blues," Bigler observed. "It was more like, 'Blues are fine, but not as good as us.' " When Reds were asked how many Reds were nice, they'd answer, "All of us." Asked how many Blues were nice, they'd answer, "Some." Some of the Blues were mean, and some were dumb—but not the Reds.

Here is Pale's quote in context.

Preparation for bias is not, however, the only way minorities talk to their children about race. The other broad category of conversation, in Harris-Britt's analysis, is ethnic pride. From a very young age, minority children are coached to be proud of their ethnic history. She found that this was exceedingly good for children's self-confidence; in one study, black children who'd heard messages of ethnic pride were more engaged in school and more likely to attribute their success to their effort and ability.

That leads to the question that everyone wonders but rarely dares to ask. If "black pride" is good for African-American children, where does that leave white children? It's horrifying to imagine kids being "proud to be white." Yet many scholars argue that's exactly what children's brains are already computing. Just as minority children are aware that they belong to an ethnic group with less status and wealth, most white children naturally decipher that they belong to the race that has more power, wealth, and control in society; this provides security, if not confidence. So a pride message would not just be abhorrent—it'd be redundant.

What the researchers infer is not that white kids should be ashamed that they are white. Rather, the academic states that it would be "horrifying" to teach "white pride" because it would reinforce a sense of superiority over others.
 
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Yeah, white kids are born racist, and black kids are born liking chicken.

Does it get any dumber than this? And I'll be we paid for this idiotic study with GOVERNMENT dollars.

That's not what the study said. It did not say that white kids were born racists and black kids were not.

What the study concludes is that all kids regardless of race self-identify at a young age and white people rarely talk about race to their kids.
 
My son is in Uganda working in an orphanage. The black children there call him "white boy" and "fat" which is a compliment. Apparently only larger people can afford food. These are not insults but observations. Children do not hate people who are different than them. They only know to call a duck a duck for Gods sake.
 

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